Re: yum update fails: "elfutils-libs conflicts with elfutils <0.127-1"

hi,

maybe post your yum configuration file and repository configurations to
the list.

you are completely sure that this is a fedora 6 machine?
i would only imagine these kinds of problems when upgrading to far
distance versions of packages, like fedora 6 trying to use a 7
repository for updates or so.

have there been any unusual configurations to yum, or the like?

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 12:48 +0200, wu wei wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just started using a machine with a fresh Fedora 6
> installation. I have confirmed that yum is configured to use the
> standard set of repositories for this distro.
> 
> "yum update" fails with the following errors:
> 
> <snip 3,000+ lines similar to those below>
> --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) for package: pam
> --> Processing Dependency: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) for package: elfutils-libs
> --> Processing Dependency: libkrb5.so.3()(64bit) for package: openssl
> --> Processing Dependency: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) for package: mkinitrd
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package krb5-libs.x86_64 0:1.5-21 set to be updated
> ---> Package glibc.i386 0:2.5-10.fc6 set to be updated
> ---> Package elfutils-libelf.x86_64 0:0.127-1.fc6 set to be updated
> ---> Package rpm-libs.x86_64 0:4.4.2-33.fc6 set to be updated
> ---> Package popt.x86_64 0:1.10.2-33.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> Error: Missing Dependency: audit-libs = 1.4.2-3.fc6 is needed by package audit
> Error: Missing Dependency: elfutils-libs = 0.126-1.fc6 is needed by
> package elfutils
> Error: elfutils-libs conflicts with elfutils < 0.127-1.fc6
> Error: Missing Dependency: audit-libs = 1.4.2-3.fc6 is needed by
> package audit-libs-python
> Error: Missing Dependency: libxml2 = 2.6.27 is needed by package libxml2-python
> Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils < 0.127-1.fc6
> Error: Missing Dependency: elfutils-libelf = 0.126-1.fc6 is needed by
> package elfutils
> Error: Missing Dependency: rpm = 4.4.2-32 is needed by package rpm-python
> Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
> Error: Package elfutils-libs needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.1), this is not
> available.
> Error: Package procps needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2), this is not available.
> Error: Package libsemanage needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4), this is not available.
> Error: Package grep needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4), this is not available.
> Error: Package less needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3), this is not available.
> <snip 1,000 lines similar to the one above>
> 
> The command "yum upgrade" fails in similar fashion.
> 
> For errors such as...
> 
> "Error: Missing Dependency: audit-libs = 1.4.2-3.fc6 is needed by package audit"
> 
> ...What do I do?  I tried "yum install audit-libs" but that generates
> hundreds of further similar errors.
> 
> For errors such as...
> 
> "Error: Package X needs Y, this is not available."
> 
> ...I understand the essence of the message, i.e. that proceeding with
> the update would break the existing installation of package X.  I
> understand that a common fix would be to uninstall all the packages
> that would be broken by the update, proceed with the update, then
> re-install the uninstalled packages as necessary.  However I hesitate
> to do that since there are over 1,000 packages affected.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> The machine was set up by an offsite server hosting company who have
> provided me with an ssh login.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
> P.S. Aplogies if this is the second occurrence of this message, a
> first attempt seemed to fail.
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Hiren Patel

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